Indigenous organizations petitioned the Peruvian government to create Yavarí Mirim, an Indigenous reserve on the Amazon ...

Clearing land for cattle and cows is the single biggest driver of rainforest loss in the Amazon. This "hotel for cows" in ...

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ...

“Colombia has made significant efforts to address ... according to the Observatory of Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Amazon. As ranchers move in and human settlements grow in protected ...

By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) -Deforestation in Colombia rose 35% in 2024 from a 23-year low the previous year, fueled ...

Muhamad, who announced her resignation on Sunday but has not yet been replaced, had spearheaded efforts to lower deforestation after levels of destruction in Colombia's Amazon and other ecosystems ...

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Colombia rose 35% in 2024 from a 23-year low the previous year, fueled by an uptick in the Amazon region, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said yesterday.

Colombia now faces the worst security and humanitarian ... other rival groups in the Guaviare region on the edge of the Amazon, and the Cauca region on the southern Pacific coast.

ELN Looks to Dominate Colombia-Venezuela Border The ELN looks poised to solidify ... Clashes have also erupted in the southeastern Amazon region between two FARC dissident groups that were once united ...

that includes the Andes mountains and the Amazon basin. It is the only country in South America that has coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Colombia is the third-largest ...

Maldonado’s work in the Colombia-Peru-Brazil tri-border region of the Amazon has taken her into dangerous territories operated by drug traffickers, FARC paramilitaries, illegal loggers and poachers.